The Thrills of the Mundane: An AI-Generated Rollercoaster with Paul Lloyd Hemphill as Your Fearless Co-Pilot!Welcome to a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and even the simplest tasks transform into epic adventures—thanks to our robot overlords!That's right, folks; this collection of hilariously absurd tales was primarily crafted by AI, with Paul Lloyd Hemphill swooping in like a word-wrangling superhero to tweak a few phrases.Think of...

Navigate The Digital World with ConfidenceParenting in the Digital Age is the ultimate guide for navigating the challenges and opportunities of raising children in a world dominated by technology. With the rapid growth of digital devices and the internet, it's more important than ever for parents to understand the impact of technology on their children's development and wellbeing.This comprehensive e-book covers all the impo...

Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry.Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books—Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed—along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision.

“Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy HarjoBefore her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume.*from “The Cockfighter’s Daughter”I found my fat...

"Smart, funny, angry, political, and utterly poetic . . . both haunting and humorous." —The Rumpus

A searing collection of poems about America's loss of innocence from the National Book Award-winning author of Vice.In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night." "An undoubtedly powerful personae."—Publishers Weekly "Ai's cleansing soliloqu...

"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human."–Samit Basu, author of Turbulence★ Finalist – Hugo Award for Best Novelette★ Finalist – Nebula Award for Novelette – Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association★ Finalist – Locus Award for NoveletteIf you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an...

Love’s Not A Curse…Unless You’re A Dating Sim Character!Miku’s relaxing life with her high-tier guild gets interrupted when she comes face to face with the supposed heroine, Laura! Laura’s arrival signals the start of Miku and Claire's happy guild life being pulled back on course toward the original game’s scenario… Will Claire, Ektor, and the rest of Lanakiller’s members be able to stop Miku’s curse from progressing and their lives from playing out like a dating s...

Wildly-popular artist Ai Yazawa’s beloved fashion-centric manga, Paradise Kiss, is back in a glamorous omnibus edition to celebrate 20 years since the manga began serialization.Follow Yukari’s through-the-looking-glass journey as she is drawn into the world of fashion by a group of passionate, young aesthetes who are determined to make their couture label a success, with Yukari as their muse...

From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang's The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao's The Surviving Sky.Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and,...

Can Two Reincarnates Set Aside Their Differences To Save The Villainess?After being reincarnated as the villainess of her favorite fantasy otome game, Claire realizes she has to act fast to save her twin sister and favorite character from falling in love because she’s cursed to literally die of a broken heart! But that won’t be easy when another reincarnate and a big fan of the fox twins is determined to save Miku—by making her fall in love with him instead! Which ...

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)ON...